Truth is Still Truth newsletter

Pending upgrade

I haven't done any major design work on the site for a year (Stilltruth Redesign question). since then the site has grown with more readers and my own desires for what the site should be has changed. I'm still desiring to be the clearing house for all things Libronix PBB. But I think we can do better. I want to increase my involvement in the BibleWorks community as well as enable a more focused dialog on determining truth in Scripture.

The blog's name and theme revolves around the unchanging truth - specifically with reference to God's word. As a personal blog however I often comment on things that are geeky or just plain different. I'm intrigued that as I write this one of the most popular posts on the site is about hacking the Western Digital Mybook World edition!

As a pastor I'm committed to presenting the old word in a new way. As a geek I'm committed to upgrading everything I touch. With that in mind I am planning some scheduled maintenance at an undetermined time on Thursday night August 21, 2008. Among other upgrades I will be converting the site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and will be instituting some major and minor changes along

Stilltruth.com is still growing in readership and I'm grateful to all of you who read as well as those that contribute. This little update is just to let you know what's going on behind the scenes.

Libronix Linking
You might have noticed lately that the site now provides links directly to open a passage in Libronix. You'll see the Libronix Icon next to almost any scripture reference now. For instance if I type John 3:16 you can see the link. If you happen to own Libronix you can click the button and open it up. By the way this will work with the KJV and the free copy of Libronix offered by Nelson.

PBBupdater and WEBFM
Most of you know that we offer hundreds of Personal Book Builder books for the Libronix engine. This has been done on the back end via a script called "webfm". Somehow in the last few days someone had used the webfm back end and had moved all of the PBB files. Fortunately the webfm module’s security and permissions have grown since I first started using it so the site is more secure than before. Unfortunately those security protocols have to be enacted and doing so caused a speedbump. While all of the file links on the site still work, the underlying files were physically moved which generated a brand new file date on all files - this triggered a complete update request through the pbbupdater program. We're working on a solution to that problem.

I've made a couple of changes lately and wanted to make sure everyone was up to speed.

Just an FYI I'm working on repairing a host of broken PBB links. Be patient please. If there are specific files you're inquiring about please send me an email identifying them and I will fix those first.

How many times have you backed up the important stuff?
Fortunately I had a fresh backup of the %site website. Catastrophe struck this morning during routine maintenance and I had to rebuild parts of the site, including some major maintenance on the Database underneath the site. As a result of the changes the former template no longer would function so I replaced it as well.
I apologize to all who wanted to access the site today but were unable to do so.
Finally however we can return to normal operation.
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Oh, and one more thing. Take this as a nudge to backup your personal data; you never quite know when you're going to need it. :-)
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tcblack